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S7E10 - Zealots of Stockholm by Childish Gambino

Dissect

Cole Cuchna

Music, Society & Culture, Arts

4.910.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

We continue our season-long examination of Because The Internet with “Zealots of Stockholm.” After waking up from a drug overdose, Gambino is told that his father died. Lost and alone, he travels to Stockholm, Sweden to collect his remains, and attempts to connect with one of his online followers.

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From Spotify, this is Dissect.

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Long-form musical analysis broken into short digestible episodes.

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I'm your host, Cole Kishna. Today we that the boy entered a surreal state after his drug overdose and envisioned utopian ideals of

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unity among all things in the universe.

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When he came back to consciousness in a hospital bed, he learned that his father died.

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The hum of a jet engine transitions us to the next scene,

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as the boy heads alone to Sweden to receive his father's remains. Given our understanding of the boy

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as a universal figure, his newly orphaned status hangs

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